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Motion Control 3D: Bringing Your Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CS6

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10/4/2012

Have you looked at a photo and wished you were there, or wondered what the scene looked like to the photographer? Now you can bring your photos to life by adding motion and depth to your images. Author Rich Harrington reveals how you can transport your photos into a three-dimensional world using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The course shows you how to select the right images and resolutions; how to use masks and layers to build the composition in Photoshop; and how to animate the camera and light the scene in After Effects.

Topics include:

Understanding parallax

Choosing the best photos

Identifying planes

Using Quick Selection, Quick Mask, and Refine Edge to create layers

Adding a 3D camera to your scene

Setting the depth and size of your composition

Using multiple views

Adding depth of field and Bokeh blur

Setting ambient and directional light

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 30m

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- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington and todayI'm gonna share with you some of my favorite techniquesfor designing motion graphics that use photos.Now, what I'm gonna show you is built upon a lot of yearsof practical use.I was a history minor in college and a journalism major,and so I've always been enthralled byphotojournalism and telling stories.I've also worked on a lot of documentaries through the yearsand I really enjoy taking picturesand bringing history to life.To do this, we're going to use photosalong with Photoshop and After Effectsto layer those photos, split them into 3D space,and then move the camera through virtually.

There's a lot of cool techniquesand this is definitely an advanced coursethat builds upon a lot of other skills.However, you are gonna be able to jump in,as long as you've got a base understandingof Photoshop and After Effects,and really get some powerful results.We've got some real world projects to show youas well as some techniques that are gonna be builtupon different types of photos,so there's a lot to explore.Let's begin.